Software Developer Contracts in Portsmouth

Software Developer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Software Developer daily rate in Portsmouth is £406 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 7 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 2.30% 3.56% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 3.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% - -
75th Percentile £419 £452 -
90th Percentile - £550 -
Hampshire median daily rate £413 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -24.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Portsmouth with a recognized job title 280 241 264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 95.26% 96.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 147 104
10th Percentile £400 £201 £165
25th Percentile £450 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% +4.71% +4.37%
75th Percentile £675 £570 £588
90th Percentile £833 £643 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 20 59
10th Percentile £48.92 £43.00 £16.29
25th Percentile £53.40 £51.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £59.00 £57.20 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +37.84% -5.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.13 £59.19
90th Percentile £76.86 £70.13 £67.80
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year +9.24% +135.96% -21.31%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Job postings that featured Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Portsmouth

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in Portsmouth.

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in Portsmouth

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in Portsmouth.

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in Portsmouth

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Software Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Portsmouth region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) C++
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (57.14%) CCTV
3 4 (57.14%) Refactoring
3 4 (57.14%) OCR
3 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (42.86%) Blazor
4 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (42.86%) UML
4 3 (42.86%) ISO 9001
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
5 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
5 2 (28.57%) XML
5 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (28.57%) MVC
5 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 2 (28.57%) JSON
5 2 (28.57%) QA
5 2 (28.57%) WCF
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) LabVIEW
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) Blazor
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) WCF
2 2 (28.57%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) OCR
3 4 (57.14%) Refactoring
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) UML
5 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) ERD
5 2 (28.57%) MVC
5 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
6 1 (14.29%) SysML
6 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO 9001
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) QA
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 12207